Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Small Game 60 days til limb chicken season.......

here in Indiana. Can't wait! Looks to be a bumper crop of the lil critters, based on the number I see out on the road, and in the yard. Hoping to do a campout down in one of our state forests, about 2 hrs. south of me, in Sept. Got 2 left in the freezer, and enough pressure cooked for one more batch of chowder. Not wishin' my life away, but come on Aug. 15th.


maddog

Got to wait till Oct here. Missed my very first chance of a spring hunt due to that dang cast. Will be making up for it..

BTW, that skwerl campout sounds like fun. May try it also..

Yeah, I'm on an Indiana hunting forum, and each fall there is a squirrel contest. I came up with the idea of a 2-3 day camp out, with not only members, but anybody that likes to squirrel hunt. So far it looks like we got 10-12 guys that want to participate. I went down there on a scouting trip, two weeks ago. the camp is remote[for Indiana], primitive[no elec], and has a 2-3 acre pond next to it that we can fish. All of it surrounded by state forest. Here's some pics of the place. I can't wait to go.!

















This will give you an idea about the place. if it wasn't so danged far to drive, I'd tell you to come on up and join the fun!


maddog

Beautiful place there! Squirrel season opens the 4th Saturday in August here in Tennessee. I'm looking forward to getting after them.

Now that does sound like fun. Y'all(southern word) would just make fun of an old southern boy up there in those yankee woods.

Only if ya cain't shoot....just sayin'....


maddog

hehehe, great comback. You just need to venture on down here. Since I retired and in the 6 Saturday a week club, I'm gonna try to hunt everyday. May need some help on the squirrels here..

Well, I did something dumb yesterday, in honor of the upcoming season.... I bought another ruger 10/22, so I can have one scoped, as well as one with a fiber optic peep sight!








Brings me up to 4 .22s for squirrel season!


maddog

For you spring and summer squirrel hunters, how about ticks??
We often make a trip though the Mo., In., & Ky. areas on our way to visit relatives in Va. and Pa. I ask my pal here in town about Mo. squirrel hunting, he is from the Springfield area, and he said the ticks were so thick, hunting was not fun..

The last tree squirrels I shot were in W. Va. probably close 15 years ago.. Big old fox squirrels..

Maddog, a guy can never have too many .22's..

Personally, I haven't been bothered by a tick, for years. I do treat my hunting clothes with permithrin, plus I've been taking vitamin B and Garlic pills. The skeeters don't bother me much, but they may be brutal this summer, because of the rain. I do keep deep woods off around for just such occasions....


BTW, the new ruger 10/22 shoots just fine.


maddog

I haven't seen or shot a Fox Squirrel in about 30yrs. We don't have them around here, just the Grey's. But back in the early 80's I hunted them around Garrett/Butler/Hamilton area's in Indiana. That was some fine hunting and a lot of fine looking Squirrels. I would be fun to do that again, but I'll have to be satisfied doing it through your posts.......you are going to post your hunts along with pictures.....right? hint, hint.

Oh yeah. I'm sure there will be another limb chicken hunting thread, just like the last couple years....


maddog

EXCELLENT!!!!


What part of Indiana were the photo's from?

NW Indiana.


maddog

Well, got the 10/22s out the other day and got them pretty much sighted in. It was very muggy and the skeeters were rampant! Still the new 10/22 didn't do half bad. Need to tweek the scope a little more, but here is a 10 shot group fired pretty quick, off sand bags on the pickup.





Not too bad for a 64 yo. with bi focals gettin' skeeter bit.





Said rifle.....


maddog

Mighty good shooting for a young chap..

"young chap"......yeah right

second week in November for me. Long time out. Nothing new this year, same couple of rifles, same places, same ammo, same technique. It all works, why change anything?

Had a funny one happen Sunday. Mama let Dexter, our min pins, outside. He promptly ran to the neighbors and ran a fox squirrel, I have nick named Otis, up a huge soft maple. Mama came running in and said Dex had climbed the tree, looking for Otis. I went outside to look, and sure enough, there's ole Dex about 8-9 ft. up in the air, in a fork of the tree!






The pic is a little dark, but you get the picture..... He decided to jump out of the tree. The pup is a crazy lil schit, but I'm taking him squirrel hunting this fall.





maddog

can't wait to see what happens when Dexter grabs one that ain't quite dead. He'll go crazy..